Strategic reforms in the National Legal Aid Bureau

The current project "Strategic Reforms at the National Legal Aid Bureau" has been developed with the aim to improve the systems for monitoring and assessing the quality of legal aid offered and to facilitate access to primary legal aid in line with the Road map to the Updated Strategy for Continue Reform of the Judicial System. The project will prepare uniform criteria and standards for aid provision in a judicial phase based on expert assessment, analysis and sociological research. In implementing the project, the National Legal Aid Bureau will introduce a uniform national system for electronic legal aid provision reporting and a tool for internal social status verification of legal aid beneficiaries. The main activities that will be implemented under the project to achieve the objectives and results are: 1. Bringing the legal aid system to the actual needs of its users, including vulnerable social groups. 2. Improving the quality assessment tool for legal aid (judicial phase). 3. Development of training programs for lawyer and training. 4. Establishment of a a uniform national system for electronic legal aid - introduction of a software product for legal aid at the National Legal Aid Bureau and the Lawyer's Councils with a view to electronic reporting of legal aid. 5. Development of the mechanism for the most accurate planning of the legal aids and control over their use.

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Overview

Status Closed (completion date)
Start date 01 Jul, 2017
End date 31 Mar, 2019
Contract date 20 Jul, 2017
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Financial information

Total cost 200,000.00
Grant 200,000.00
Self finance 0.00
Total paid 192,064.22
EU participation percent 85.0%

Location